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Just water and a brush is all you need to practice Japanese calligraphy with these high-tech school supplies!
It not only looks like Sailor Moon’s Disguise Pen, it’s also a beautifully designed, high-quality fountain pen.
It’s easy to forget, but Sailor Moon and her fellow Sailor Senshi actually spend most of their day as students. When there aren’t any monsters around, the anime’s cast should ostensibly have notes to take, worksheets to fill out, and reports to write, and when it’s time to stop fighting and start studying, maybe they reach for one of these pens modeled after the magical equipment of Sailors Moon, Chibimoon, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
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